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[showbizpanache]

[It's short and simple.]

I know all of us here have lost at least one person on this ship. So let me ask you...

When did you start feeling like you're always the one left behind?

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[theyalldieforme]

Already?

[showbizpanache]

Already.

I'd laugh at the irony if I felt at all like laughing.

[theyalldieforme]

Rachel, too?

[showbizpanache]

No. But it's only a matter of time, don't you think?

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[dirtyword]

Who'd you lose, Broadway?

[theyalldieforme]

Well I'm not going to say yes about that. Considering.

Sorry, anyway.

I changed rooms.

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[vindicating]

You lost someone?

[showbizpanache]

Did you now.

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[lacksgrace]

You really wanna go home that bad, huh?

[showbizpanache]

Same as last time.

[theyalldieforme]

First floor.

Need company?

[showbizpanache]

Must be a Tuesday.

[showbizpanache]

[.....]

I didn't mean it like that.

[showbizpanache]

That would be nice. I think we should vary our meetings, though, don't you think? So I'm not crying all over you every time.

[theyalldieforme]

All right.

Post jump, do you want to learn how to do encryptions? I have to get Ariadne to stop making rookie mistakes.

[showbizpanache]

Sure. I probably won't ever be as good as you, though.

[lacksgrace]

What did you mean then? [ There's a pretty long pause. ] Who left?

[showbizpanache]

Blaine.

Blaine's gone. Again.

[lacksgrace]

[ Honestly, he doesn't know what to say. Usually something insensitive, but. Not this time. ]

Are you, uh, gonna be okay?

[showbizpanache]

I don't know.

[lacksgrace]

You know. I'm not really good at this sort of thing. But I'll come see you if you don't wanna be alone right now.

[showbizpanache]

Yeah.

I'd really like to see you, actually.

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[lacksgrace]

Your room, right? Give me a couple minutes.

[ Which doesn't actually take him all that long, not anymore. And maybe he seems a little tense when he shows up. ]

[theyalldieforme]

I'll even teach your friend Rachel as long as she promises to stop being so neurotic about me.

[showbizpanache]

[...sigh.]

She's sort of neurotic about everything.

What does she have to say about you, though? Of all people...